CD9.R12: Sessions of regional committees outside the regional headquarters

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9th DIRECTING COUNCIL

9th SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE

THE 9th DIRECTING COUNCIL,

Having studied Resolution WHA9.20 of the Ninth World Health Assembly on "Sessions of

Regional Committees outside the Regional Headquarters";

Recalling that the policy on holding meetings of the Governing Bodies of the Pan American

Sanitary Organization was established in Resolutions VIII and IX of the XIII Pan American

Sanitary Conference (1950) and that, according to the established pattern, over a four-year cycle

two meetings are held at Headquarters, in odd years, and two meetings away from Headquarters, in

even years;

Noting that the cycle of meetings for the four-year periods 1951-1958 and 1955-1958 follows the

pattern established by the aforementioned resolutions, and that the budgetary implications of these

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Noting that, in accordance with Resolution VI of the VIII Meeting of the Directing Council, the

host Government [in question] participates in the cost of meetings held away from Headquarters;

and

Having examined the report of the Director [contained] in Document CD9/20, 1 and the proposal to

establish a reserve fund for the purpose of equalizing the costs of organizational meetings over a

four-year cycle,

RESOLVES

1. To take note of Resolution WHA9.20, and to point out that the patterns for meetings of the

Pan American Sanitary Conference and the Directing Council, which serve as the Regional

Committee of the World Health Organization for the Americas, conform to the recommendations of

the World Health Assembly with respect to meetings of the Regional Committees.

2. To authorize the Director to establish a reserve fund for the purpose of equalizing the PASO

budget appropriations for the meetings of the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Sanitary

Organization held over a four-year period so that the additional costs of holding meetings away

from Headquarters may be distributed evenly in each of those four years, and to take this

equalization scheme into account in the provisional draft of the program and budget estimates of

PASO for 1959 for consideration by the Executive Committee and the Directing Council at their

meetings in 1957.

3. To instruct the Director to propose to the Director-General of the World Health Organization

that a similar reserve fund be established in the Region of the Americas for the WHO appropriation

in support of meetings of the Directing Council and the Conference, serving as the Regional

Committee.